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		<title>Playing &#8220;Chicken&#8221; With Public Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the National Education Association (NEA, i.e., Teacher’s Union) responded to the coming tide of the elimination of teacher tenure all across the United States. Did they ask for more continuing education for teachers? Did they request additional accountability from School Boards? Did they suggest that they be evaluated by parents every year? No to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=702&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Blame Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday morning, a 22 year old lunatic, Jared Loughner, opened fire in a crowded Safeway parking lot in Tucson, Arizona.  His spree resulted in the deaths of six people, including a nine-year old girl and a Federal Judge.  His apparent first target was the sitting Arizona 8th District Congressman, Gabreille Giffords.  Cable news has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=697&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Down to Business &#8211; Education Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the 112th Congress has been sworn in, it is time to turn our attention to matters closer to home.  With barely a week before he takes office, Governor-elect Bill Haslam has a plate full of problems before him and a remade General Assembly at his disposal to solve them. The short list?  A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=693&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tax &#8220;Chicken Or The Egg&#8221; Conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Hartline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 election cycle brought many policy issues front and center for the American people.  Federal spending, federal debt, earmark spending, war, illegal immigration, and health care dominated the election landscape.  But a major policy issue that brought the Lame Duck congress into sharp contention was tax policy. In the final several weeks of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=687&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adrift With A Compass.  Will We Use It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of conversation during the last election cycle about the Founders and their principles.  As I have observed the conversation, I have determined that there is only one political party that has an outspoken record in favor of the founding principles of the republic.  It is the Libertarian Party. I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=684&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crocodile Tears</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, I thought the entire Democrat Party House Leadership had changed parties and begun advocating for the future of America rather than their own individual “vote-securing” Progressive womb-to-tomb socialist agenda.  Alas, I was wrong. Why did I think this?  For hours, their members mounted the House platform to endlessly demagogue about the deficit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=680&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fiddling While The Nation Burns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In typical fashion for a person way over his head, President Obama has spent his weeks since the November “shellacking” (sp.?) doing everything but attending to the real problems of the country.  In the wake of the elections, Obama fled the people he had just pushed off the cliff and rode Air Force One off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=675&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamental Disagreements &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>http://jeffhartline.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/fundamental-disagreements-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political discourse is in precipitous freefall as of late.  The “lame duck” 111th Congressional leadership has become a 24/7 cascade of sound bites, demagoguery, and posturing.  One would have thought that the historic November elections would have created some consensus among Democrat lawmakers that the people had wearied of their policy goals and emboldened those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=671&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamental Disagreements</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The din of debate in America is often the result of the clash of principles that lie below the surfaces of the actual discussions and positioning and political wranglings.  I have noticed few forums where actual debate is practiced anymore.  That is, the presentation of a single issue with a proposition attached where two individuals, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=666&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Hearing Checked, Quick!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Lame Duck 111th Congress comes back into Washington, the President has begun “spinning” the results of the November elections to make it appear that the voters have expressed their displeasure with the Republicans as having failed to work with the Democrats.  Now they (The American People) want the Congress to get down to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffhartline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11326239&amp;post=662&amp;subd=jeffhartline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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